Small-scale growers in Zimbabwe are going to export snow peas and sugar snap peas

Published 2023년 6월 5일

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Small-scale growers in Zimbabwe are benefiting from the high demand for blueberries in the UK and Netherlands, as local pod exporters are unable to meet the demand. The opening of a new packing station, funded by Anglo American and managed by Technoserve, is expected to process supply from small-scale growers for export. The project also involves seven irrigation schemes and is looking for new markets to absorb products from small-scale growers, potentially increasing their income fivefold. The infrastructure will be owned by the community and there are plans to explore sea freight exports through South African ports via Maputo, reducing distance and cost.

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Small-scale growers in Zimbabwe are benefiting from the space that is freed up in the export of pods due to the switch from large farms to blueberries. Right: Memory Gonye, a small-scale grower who now also grows pods for export Zimbabwean pod exporters cannot meet the demand from the UK and the Netherlands this season. It is therefore the right time to open a packing station where the supply from small-scale growers can be processed for export. The largest packhouse for export produce in South Zimbabwe and arguably the largest packing facility for small-scale export growers in the entire country, according to Emmanuel D.N. Dube, an agricultural expert and supply chain coordinator at Technoserve, will open in late June or early July 2023 near Chachacha Growth Point 350km from Harare. Anglo American, which aims to revitalize mining at the Unki platinum mine in Zimbabwe's Midlands province, is funding the Takura project. It also contracted Technoserve as an executive partner to ...

Source: AGF